Life well lived: Polio vaccine pioneer Dr. Julius Youngner dies at 96

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May 7, 2017 / 1:40 PM GMT / Source: TODAY

By TODAY

In this week’s Life Well Lived, we look back at the important research done by Dr. Julius Youngner as part of a team that developed the Salk polio vaccine in 1955. Youngner died April 27 at the age of 96.